Re: [PATCH v7 4/8] sched: nominate preferred wakeup cpu

[Vaidyanathan Srinivasan]

* Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2008-12-19 20:44:55]:

> On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 10:06:38 +0530 Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > > 
> > > kernel/sched.c: In function 'schedule':
> > > kernel/sched.c:3679: warning: 'active_balance' may be used uninitialized in this function
> > > 
> > > This warning is correct - the code is buggy.
> > 
> > Yes this is my code bug.  I did not see the warning in sched.c.  Is
> > there any build option that I need to pass in order to get -Wall
> > effect?
> 
> That was just with plain old kbuild: `make allmodconfig;make'.
> 
> That warning was produced by gcc-4.0.2.  If you're using something more
> recent then gcc has regressed.

This is an interesting problem.  I am unable to get that warning in the
following GCC versions even with a combination of the following
cmdline options: -Wall -Wextra -Wuninitialized

gcc version 4.1.2 20070502
gcc version 4.2.3

I will look for older gcc and check this out.

--Vaidy

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